Note 2 — WORKHOUSE NURSING:

Among the replies of the London medical officers, one which seemed especially to impress the Sub-Committee was given by the senior honorary medical officer of St. Thomas’s. Mr. Hagger asked him, “If you had to cure the sick by contract at so much a head, and had to choose between unpaid pauper nurses allotted to you gratis, or paying yourself for skilled nurses, which would you choose?” “To pay for skilled nurses, certainly,” was the unhesitating answer.